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By 

CLYDE- O-BEDELL 


'With acknowledgment to 
JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD 
for much of Part Two 



MONTEREY PENINSULA COMMUNITIES • INCORPORATED 
Del Monte Monterey Pacific Grove Pebble Beach Carmel Carmel Highlands 
MONTEREY - CALIFORNIA 


Part One of this Booklet is designed to create for you, 
wherever you may he, the atmosphere of the Monterey 
Peninsula of old —and of today. It breathes of the chivab 
rous past, and of the inviting present tinged with mellow' 
ing tradition. 

Part Two is a miniature cyclopaedia of information and 
fact. It tal\s fish and chicfiens and golf for instance, in¬ 
stead of scenery and romance. It will answer your practical 
questions concerning the Peninsula. 


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Y OU are about to be told of a place largely settled by people 
who could live anywhere in the world. They are familiar 
with the gay and charming Riviera of the Mediterranean. 
They know the intriguing beauties of Europe, the wistful love' 
liness of England and Scotland, and the beguiling sweetness of 
the sunny Southlands. They know the bracing, invigorating 
northern climes, and the mystic Orient. 

Yet for home, they have chosen the Monterey Peninsula! 
This Peninsula—fortunate in the illustrious persons who love 
it—has few earmarks of the average community which is telling 
its story to the public. Here, there is no bluster and no boom. 
No great industrial section rearing giant smokestacks to the 
sky. The Peninsula has not been the mecca for great enter' 
prises. It seeks people who want homes. Yet there is absence 
of tract offices here, and there are no pompous glad'handers 
with numerous blank deeds on their persons. 

There are gorgeous flower'gardens, primitive forests, wondrous 
drives, and inviting little farms and ranches. There are sparkling 
fishing fleets, gorgeous sunsets, romantic bays, historic build' 
ings of an age long gone, and championship golf courses. Color, 
beauty, grandeur, elegance—a myriad things that win real people 
are here. And of all these things and more, we will tell you. 

But the Peninsula—we hasten to say—will not appeal to the 
individual, nor to the family, which seeks a tinselled firmament 
of electric lights. Our communities—Carmel, Monterey, Pebble 
Beach and Pacific Grove—are alertly alive, but they cling to 
the old idea that homes are to live in and revere. Our families 
are so absurdly old'fashioned as to believe that if people are 
surrounded with all the good things of life, they will be con' 
tented with them. We adhere to the notion that to be happy 
is to be natural. And that to be natural is to pursue wholesome, 
healthy, honest things. 




A Map of the Monterey 
Peninsula, after the old 
Spanish Style 






















PART ONE 


A DECADE before the Pilgrims 
AA set forth in search of a land 
-A of liberty, Monterey’s dis¬ 
coverers had seen eight kind winters 
come and depart. By the time the 
Mayflower’s Masters uttered first 
prayers of thanksgiving for a perilous 
trip safely ended, the Peninsula had 
basked through eighteen mellow years 
under dominion of the white man. 

Then civilization developed on two 
great seaboards at once. In the East, 
courageous forefathers of a mighty 
nation were wresting their fortunes 
from a hard, forbidding shore. In the 
West, no less courageous explorers 
and pioneers had pushed through trial 
and hardship until they settled into 
the lap of a bounteous Nature. 

There had been years of scouting 
the unknown seas in egg-shell boats. 
There had been heart-rending seasons 
of leading dwindling files of men 
through Southern deserts. There had 
been months and months of privation 
and speculation, and at last—midway 
between the San Francisco and Los 
Angeles of today—Monterey! 

As a large family has usually one 
among its members, especially favor¬ 
ed and blessed by the gods, so seemed 
Monterey among the world’s family 
of pioneer settlements those ages gone. 

Many cities are destined to relent¬ 
lessly pursue power—as Carthage and 
Rome. Many are destined to be 


dowered by lucrative commerce—as 
Constantinople and Tyre. But only 
occasionally a city seems destined to 
be the mother of a world. 

Such a city was Monterey of old. 
Not that there was lacking the virility 
of a masculine port in this demure old 
Spanish town. Not that Monterey 
made no history as other places did. 
But Monterey—even in the dash and 
urge of making history—was win¬ 
some, piquant, and always modest. 
It was Monterey that gave birth to 
the State of California! To an entire 
Western World! 

In early days, spice-scented argosies 
from the Orient would head into 
Monterey Bay, with sails like pearls 
reflecting a gorgeous setting sun. 
Lights would soon be struck in the 
inns, the gambling houses and the ball¬ 
rooms, and cosmopolitan gaiety would 
commence. 

But let us, with a spirit of adven¬ 
ture in our hearts, turn back the dog¬ 
eared leaves of Time, and visit that 
Peninsula of old. 

It is twilight. A nut-brown, aged 
vessel has joined several of its kind in 
the limpid bay. Small boats strike the 
water, and the glint of wet oars in the 
rhythm of rise and fall, mark their 
progress to the land. 

Down the hills behind us, Spanish 
soldiers are sauntering, their uniforms 
bright and spotless. Here we pass a 



F U L F I 

’dobe home, and in the patio a glorious 
senorita is dancing as she shall dance 
tonight in a brilliant ballroom. Ac- 
companying her is a troubadour,whose 
guitar is melting liquid romance into 
the evening air. Small feet twinkle 
over the stones of the court. Cas- 
tanets take up the time, and we hear 
a ripple of laughter as we pass on. 

Now we meet the sailors—just 
landed—their sea-legs still unaccus- 
tomed to the steady shore. They are 
strikingly attired, with bright colors 
lending them a gala air. For weeks 
they have breasted the seas, battling 
raging typhoons, and rounding the 
Horn with great waves sweeping 
their decks. Monterey has been in 
their minds for months. It is their 
night, and Old World gold glints 
sharply as bars are patronised, and as 
coins are flipped carelessly to hopeful 
urchins who should be in bed. 

Here is a ’dobe house covered with 
rose vines, and rising from a sea of 
flowers. The fragrance is pervasive, 
and rises as though it would envel¬ 
ope the stars and the soaring moon. 
Window bars in the thick, cool walls 
do not confine a sudden trill of 
winged notes. A great crown of 
black hair appears. Two shining 
Spanish eyes peer up at the stars. She 
shall see her don tonight. 

A few paces farther on, six Indians 
stolidly blink in the feeble glare of 
a lantern. Sailors from a Spanish 
boat are grouped about them, jesting, 
and inspecting for the fir^t time, 
American red men. Soon they will 
be trading pocket pieces for Indian 
souvenirs, talking by sign and grunt 
and grimace. A bunch of cowmen 
gallop down the street. They charge 
from block to block, inventorying the 
town. Satisfied that no excitement 


L M E N T 

is afoot, they dismount, prepared to 
make some for themselves. 

Surely an evening in so cosmopoli¬ 
tan and romantic a place will be in¬ 
teresting. We eventually arrive at 
the best dance-hall. Here Monterey 
society holds forth tonight. Joyous¬ 
ness is rampant. Extravagant decora¬ 
tions have made the ballroom a royal 
spectacle. 

An air of expectation reigns. It 
has been whispered that Senorita 
Ysabel Herrara has been won at last! 
Tonight she will appear with her 
caballero—luckiest of all men. La 
Favorita—as she is called by her 
adoring Monterey—has been wooed 
by countless men. But she has kept her 
hand and heart for the man who 
would bring her pearls without end! 

Vincent de la Vega, a handsome 
adventurer from the South, had de¬ 
parted months before, swearing some¬ 
how to return with the richest pearls 
in the world. Now he must have 
returned, says local gossip, bringing 
the one gift for which La Favorita 
would surrender her hand. 

At la&, between dances, there is 
a moment of silence. La Favorita 
appears in the fringe of the crowd! 
The floor has cleared. She steps 
forth, a vision of sublimed beauty 
—swathed in pearls—great ropes of 
them, such as people never knew 
could be! Flushed and happy in his 
lovely prise, De la Vega holds her 
hand. Defeated suitors swallow 
heavy hearts, and a fir^t cheer grows 
into deafening applause. The music 
starts, and we watch dons and donas, 
senors and senoritas eagerly close about 
the radiant pair in a whirl of dancing. 
Where could life be so gay, so brilliant, 
as at Monterey? 

The dance continues. Finally, 


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small hours have come. The last 
piece barely starts—when an aged 
padre, exhausted and pale, staggers in' 
to the room. His shoes are torn and 
his feet are bleeding from running far. 
With great difficulty, he lunges to the 
center of the floor. The music stops 
and there is stifling silence. The 
padre's aged back straightens as with 
haggard face he peers about the room. 
Chills steal down the spines of seno' 
ritas. With electrifying suddeness," 
the padre shrieks, levels his finger at 
De la Vega, and in the name of heaven 
accuses him of stealing the sacred 
pearls of Loreta! 

For a moment, the dashing caballero 
is motionless. Then the love that had 
sent him forth for the pearls pricks 
him to action. Lifting his sweetheart 
in his arms, he dashes into the night. 
Monterey helps to seek the lost pearls 
of Loreta, but they are gone forever. 

With excitement still high, let us 
enter a gambling house. Here at the 
bar is a cosmopolitan crowd. We may 
listen to the tales of grilled explorers, 
or the narrations of hoary fishermen. 
We may rub elbows with the scions of 
Spanish nobility, removed from wealth 
by hearty love of pioneering and ro' 
mance. 

At the gaming tables are sailors, 
soldiers, adventurers. Some of them 
are sulking over the caprices of for' 
tune. Others are flushed with tri' 
umph, and thump buoyantly on the 
drooping shoulders of mourning com' 
panions. There’s the clink of busy 
glasses and the riffle of cards on shin' 
ing tables. 

In one corner, a troubadour has ac' 
cumulated a pile of coins before him. 
An opponent drops his head in hope' 
lessness. There is whispered intima' 
tion of privation in the loser’s family. 


L M E N T 

The troubadour’s visions of ease and 
affluence dissipate. He whispers a 
quick “Losiento,” pushes his wealth 
to the luckless stranger, leaps over the 
table and is gone! 

In another corner, an improvised 
quartette softly harmonizes to the lays 
of two guitars. Three Spaniards with 
chairs tilted against the walls, have 
bared their heads, and are dreaming of 
an old world court. Then there is 
sudden tumult. Alcalde Colton has 
come! Games stop on the instant. A 
fiery man strides to the largest table, 
heavily laden with gold. He throws 
a great cane across its middle, and 
with his right hand gestures. Then 
he speaks in Spanish: “This to the 
right be yours. This to the left be 
mine. In the name of your faithful 
Alcalde, do I speak.” A laugh sets 
up. Henchmen are waved to open 
sacks they have borne in behind the 
Alcalde, and glittering, clinking gold 
in a tawny stream, flows into their 
maws. So with other tables, till half 
the money on their tops has weighted 
the sacks. A ne’er'do'well attempts to 
slip a few coins into his sleeve, that the 
Alcalde may be short'changed. For his 
trouble, a cowman raps him stiffly over 
the knuckles with the butt of a gun. 

Alcalde Colton moves to the door, 
the sacks borne beside him. He raises 
his hat to the crowded room. There 
are several oaths, many toasts, and a 
multitude of “saluds” for him as he 
disappears. 

Thus does Alcalde Colton, loved of 
the populace as the town itself is loved, 
raise money to build Colton Hall, 
California’s first Capitol Building. 

Now gaiety gives way to early 
morn. Let us take this path to an in' 
viting hill'top. There below us lies 
old Monterey. Like a bed of loosely 


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Marine views about the Peninsula. u The Pacific Ocean * * * bombards her with never- 
dying surf. * * * You can see the breakers leaping high and white by day; at night 
the outline of the shore is traced in transparent silver by the moonlight and flying 
foam ; and from all around, even in quiet weather, the low, distant thrilling roar of the 
Pacific hangs over the adjacent country .”— Robert Louis Stevenson. 










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scattered jewels, it glistens in the 
moonlight. Lights twinkle where 
revelers are seeking their beds, or per' 
force, industrious fishermen are stir' 
ring from theirs. 

The great still bay lies like a deep' 
toned sapphire, blue'black in the 
moon’s mild light. A path of yellow 
spun gold takes its start at the feet of 
the subsided town, and spans the 
water toward the mystic moon. Ves' 
sels anchored in that mellow light, 
appear as wrought gold galleons in a 
magic sea. 

Behind us, a mocking bird takes up 
his early morning hymn. A breeze 
stirs restlessly. Cloud regiments of 
fog are tenderly wrapping a neighbor' 
ing hill top and its velvet slopes in the 
softest, sweetest mist in the world. 


To our other side, we see fog' 
wraiths, unloosing their slender forms 
from a neighboring valley. Caress' 
ingly, unwillingly, they seem to un' 
tangle their fingers from the stately 
trees. Silently, swiftly, ere the coming 
sun finds them in their amours, they 
steal away. 

Fragrance is abroad. The balsam 
of Monterey pines tinctures the air 
with indescribable natural perfume. 
Wild flowers that grow in surges 
down the hillsides, add their assailing 
sweetness to the dawn. We smell the 
cypress trees. Exhilaration steals into 
our systems. Our eyes sparkle, and 
we expand our grateful lungs with air 
like wine. The great, clean, unchang' 
ing outdoors of the Peninsula makes 
us younger. Life is full—and good! 



AND that was Monterey of old. 

A Spanish city of beauty and 
naturedoving men and women. But 
not all was romance. Beneath the 
light and happy surface of life on the 
Peninsula, there flowed purpose and 
responsibility. Here was the center 
from which radiated the activities of 
the grand old Padre, Junipero Serra. 
Here he lived and directed the spread 
of those staunch old missions which all 
Californians honor. 

San Carlos Mission was established 
at Monterey in 1770, one of the earl' 
iest among missions. But little later 
it was moved to Carmel—and was 
officially designated San Carlos Bor' 


romeo del Carmelo de Monterey. 
Here was Father Serra’s own charge, 
and when he died he was buried in 
the sanctuary of the chapel. San 
Carlos Church of Monterey was also 
established in 1770. 

Through years and decades of ad' 
venturous growth the Missions were 
stable molders of the serious thought 
of the people. And Alcaldes came and 
went, building their fortitude and in' 
spiration into the passing years. 

Finally, Mexico wrested herself 
from the Spanish throne, and Monte' 
rey, no longer Capital of a Spanish 
Province, became the guiding star of 
a Mexican State. Few more than a 


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There are numbei'less beauty spots on the Peninsula. If one especially likes land¬ 
scapes, they are of every kind. Here are typical glimpses of vastly varying Penin¬ 
sula scenes. 


















F U L F I 

score of years later, the American flag 
was raised over the old Customs 
House, and the Peninsula became part 
of American territory. 

Even then, growth was gradual in 
Monterey. Just a few people who 
loved the outdoors, and sought the 
sea, the mountains, trees, flowers, 
brilliant sunsets, and an equable 
climate, would come to see—and 
settle down. 

Finally came news of gold! Gold 
to be had for the digging! The Pe' 
ninsula, like the rest of the world, 
flamed with excitement. Men packed 
a few necessities and departed. There 
was an exodus from the coast, and the 
mountain ranges in the interior of the 
territory swarmed with anxious, vig' 
orous men. 

Monterey quietly lived on. Gold 
seekers made great trails up and down 
the state. Mountain passes and valley 
paths marked as directly as possible, 
routes to and from the diggings. 

Few men of ambition were left in 
the dear old village of romance. When 
a Constitutional Convention met in 
the original Capitol in ’49, it was 
voted to move the seat of government 
into the interior—nearer the excite' 
ment and activity. Monterey did not 
demur. If she had entertained visions 
of some day being the Capital of a 
great commonwealth, she stoically 
watched that vision dissolve with 
adjournment of the assembly. 

Then the last phase of political 
power and influence departed from 
the Peninsula. There were still 
dreams of commercial mightiness how' 
ever. A few staunch'hearted men ap' 
praised natural advantages and saw a 
future Monterey of tremendous ship' 
ping importance. The priceless bay 
would be the natural outlet for great 

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L M E N T. 

Central California, and Monterey 
would speed to all the world, the pro' 
duce of the Empire at her back. But 
fate decreed differently in those years, 
though still this bay may be a ship' 
ping power of the descending future. 

At any rate, San Francisco became 
a city—as did Los Angeles. Monte' 
rey nestled close in against the ma' 
jestic hills of the old Peninsula, and 
the first port of them all saw the world 
grow ambitious and speed by. 

But if the world sped by, individual 
men with great hearts and discerning 
minds did not. Occasionally in the 
rugged mountain camps, a tale of 
Monterey was told. Striking occas' 
ional eager ears, or a hungry soul, a 
sympathetic spark was wakened by 
legend or story. The next day, there 
would be but ashes where a man had 
camped, and a lover of the beautiful—- 
tired of the rabble and scramble of 
lust-—would be miles on his way to 
the Peninsula. 

Then came the time when the 
Southern Pacific system was to choose 
a location for a great resort. All Cali' 
fornia lay in expectancy before the 
chief officials—but the Peninsula was 
made Del Monte’s site! The world’s 
most equable, delightful climate, and 
natural attractions surpassing those of 
all other places, decided them. Now 
charming, world'famed Hotel Del 
Monte has for over 40 years lent 
lustre to the Peninsula, as the Penin' 
sula has lent allurement to Del Monte. 

Meanwhile, in stage or steamer, 
railroad car or prairie schooner, indi' 
viduals susceptible to the recountings 
of romance, and hoping ever for fulfil' 
ment of long nursed dreams—would 
hear. And the Peninsula grew in 
selective persons who came to see or 
rest, to visit or play—and stayed to live. 




World famous Del Monte 
Hotel and the sweeping 
curve of Monterey Bay 
seen from the air. Del 
Monte, looking inland to 
the hills and the ribbon 
highway that mounts their 
crests. Roman plunge and 
views in Del Monte park. 











F U L F I 

Thus were affectionately born the 
several communities about Monterey. 
Pacific Grove and Carmel'by'the'Sea 
evolved. In later years came Asilo' 
mar, Pebble Beach, and Carmel High' 


L M E N T 

lands. The communities all are rich 
in Nature’s profoundest blessings, and 
each is vastly rich in its own right in 
special ways. Each has individual 
charms that will appeal to you. 



T HE Monterey Peninsula is on no 
world highway. It is not a center 
from which radiate numerous railroad 
tracks. It has not thus far been inviting 
to giant industries and enterprises. It 
hitherto has never told its story to the 
world. But it has always been stra' 
tegically situated for living and rest' 
ing, for playing and becoming youthful 
again. And for working—if facility 
to marts of the world is not one’s 
requirement. 

Thus, men who love Nature have 
found the Peninsula the embodiment 
of their dreams of old. Here they have 
found respite from their labors. Men 
whose boyhood was never lived, have 
found it here in their maturity. Many 
have retired, fulfilling youthful aspi' 
rations in a land of fairy goodness. 
Others have homes here, that Nature’s 
finest handiwork might be their 
eternal playground. Still others plan, 
dream and create here, executing their 
plans and dreams where industries 
dwell. 

Artists and authors too numerous 
to list, have paid tribute to the Penim 
sula. A few of them are Richard 
Henry Dana, Robert Louis Stevenson, 
Charles Warren Stoddard, Gouver' 

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neur Morris, Harry Leon Wilson, 
Sam Blythe, Peter Clarke MacFarlane, 
Mary Austin, Armin Hansen, and 
Francis McComas. Most of these 
have lived here, or now have homes 
here. Some of them are actively in' 
terested in the organizations of Penin' 
sula citizens. 

There is manifest loyalty to the Pe' 
ninsula from all who live here. Now 
what do these people find to make 
them so devoted? Description is 
difficult, but there is the wondrous 
outdoors, comfortable and inviting 
the year around. For instance, people 
who have never “cared for trees,” 
come to the Peninsula and learn to 
regard them with awe and ever'in' 
creasing admiration. 

He who dwells on the Peninsula 
may skirt the forests on fine motor 
roads, peering into depths shot here 
and there with sunlight. He may 
enter —you may enter—the great 
woods by bridle or foot paths, and see 
slanting, slender rays of sun like gold' 
en hair—spilling themselves every' 
where through heavy growth of 
leaves. 

There are Monterey pines, fir, and 
live oak trees, and other species too 



F U L F I 

numerous to mention. Gorgeous 
wild lilac bushes, tree sized, glorious 
in bloom and number, will fascinate 
you. There are stately eucalyptus 
trees, the most queenly trees of the 
world. They have towering bare 
trunks of pink and cream, or gray and 
white, and leaves which weave Cham 
tilly lace, far, far overhead against 
Cerulean skies. They are aristocratic, 
graceful, sometimes ragged denizens 
from a foreign world, lending their 
pervasive breath and slender charm to 
the calm loveliness of the woodlands. 

Birds of brilliant hue trill paeans of 
praise from vantage points every' 
where. There is a flutter of wings, 
and some bright bird you have never 
known existed lifts far out of sight. 
Others play an excited game of hide 
and seek among the gnarled old cy' 
presses. Cypresses such as are no' 
where else in the world! 

Famous Lone Cypress stands gaunt 
and brave; his patient vigil of the cem 
turies not to be given up. With bared 
roots clinging to the seaswept rocks, 
he stands a grim and grizzled veteran 
of a legion years. 

Like gray old men, others with 
twisted trunks huddle low, and fold' 
ing their foliage close about them lean 
away from far'Come ocean winds. 
Henna'Colored moss, delicately adorn' 
ing ash'hued trunks, gives peculiar 
vivacity to some old, road'sheltering 
stalwarts. 

These are the mysterious trees 
which captivated Stevenson, and 
which people come from over all the 
world to see. You will look long at 
our cypress trees—whose only home 
on earth is here. In one grove around 
Cypress Point are some 12,750 of 
them. Charles Warren Stoddard 
wrote many years ago, Their. 


L M E N T 

“roots writhe out of the earth and 
strike into it again like pythons in a 

rage.every angle of their lean, 

gray boughs seems to imply something. 
Who will interpret these hieroglyp' 
hies? Blood'red sunsets flood this 
haunted wood; there is a sound of a 
deep drawn sigh passing through it at 
intervals. The moonlight fills it with 
mystery; and along its rocky front, 
where the sea'flowers blossom and the 
sea'grass waves its flossy locks, the 
soul of the poet and of the artist meet 
and mingle between shadowless sea 
and cloudless sky, in the unsearchable 
mystery of that cypress solitude.” 
Enchantment is in the woods! 

Monterey Pines will charm you. 
They are the fastest growing trees in 
the world, and because of their great 
commercial value, have been imported 
by Australia, Hawaii, and New Zea' 
land. If you are on the Peninsula in 
the winter time, you may see the 
amazing butterfly pines of Pacific 
Grove. I n a sheltered spot they stand, 
not far from the water’s edge. Here, 
safe from chilling winds, millions of 
great brown butterflies spend the 
winter. Suddenly in November they 
appear. Suddenly in mid'March they 
vanish. The mystery of their arrival 
and departure has never been solved, 
but instinct somehow directs them to 
these particular pines. 

Daytimes, they busily flutter about 
roses and lilies which abound through' 
out the season. But evenings and 
during showers, they go to their se' 
lected trees and hang motionless to 
the kindly boughs. These delicate 
creatures appreciate the climate of the 
Peninsula, as you will. 

Flowers? They are everywhere! 
A perfect profusion of them! There is 
no season without its special bursts of 

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Peninsula homes of modest mien. 
From modern Spanish types and 
rustic cottages, they vary to re¬ 
stored adobes, such as the upper 
right corner. Bottom left is an 
ancient 'dobe. 







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bloom. Countless bobbing, colorful 
heads people meads and hills in festal 
abandon. Like great crowds of gos- 
siping sprites they are, hubbubing 
and twinkling in dancing sunlight. 

The Peninsula flowers are so lovely, 
so profuse withal, they well may 
seem the souls of dreams, dreamed by 
happy Spanish generations of the 
cherished past. Fifty-two weeks of 
every year you may exult in flowers, 
and grow them in your door-yard or 
your lawns. Even decrepit, gray old 
dwellings of a by-gone age are sympa¬ 
thetically tended by splurges of blos¬ 
soms in their nooks and crannies. An 
occasional crumbling ’dobe wall is 
seen almost buried in a wealth of 
climbing roses or colorful vines. 
Mutely proud are these ruins, of the 
ever-blooming flowers which tumble 
over them. 

On the Peninsula, summer grass on 
the hills is golden. Tawny, rolling 
hill-sides are beautiful to climb, and 
witching to look at across a picture 
valley of flowers and trees. From a 
distance, great clumps of trees like 
velvet moss are clinging to their hump¬ 
ing curves. Live oaks they are, always 
green and friendly-appearing old fel¬ 
lows. They grow singly or in groups, 
and dot the hillsides with deep, rich 
verdancy. In winter months, the 
many slopes turn green—a gracious 
background for the brilliant winter 
flowers. 

From the top of some fine hill, you 
may have sweeping views of bays and 
ocean. Imagine the witchery, the ex¬ 
hilaration of a morning ride or drive 
through a forest vale. Then a gentle 
slope to ascend, and a summit with a 
breath-taking view on every hand! 
Far, far below, the crescent bay with a 
gleaming beach, and a narrow strip of 


L M E N T 

silver foam where the waves subside! 
Glistening tile roofs of a bay-side 
town, and splashes of color where 
flowers have smothered a hillside or a 
garden-plot! 

Above, straight pines tower into 
white galleons of the sky—the fog— 
hurrying to be gone from the moun¬ 
tain tops. From another point, we 
see the white sand of the beach give 
way to a rock-bound coast. Breakers 
restlessly roll in, and halted by ada¬ 
mant rock, they froth in momentary 
fury and are gone. Great age-old piles 
jut up from the sea, covered with 
gulls. As by magic signal, they rise 
as one, circle a sweep of the shore and 
subside again. 

If you ride for a bit, you may see 
vast sand dunes. White and as bright 
as snow they are. Drifting slowly, 
silently, subtly, they are captivating 
in their shifting slopes and stunted 
brush. You pass round them, and 
startled little animals scurry for cover. 

Far out on the breast of the sea, a 
small sail glints. A bright launch 
moves lazily astern, and silhouettes 
itself against the morning sky. To 
the right a hybrid fleet of fishing ves¬ 
sels goes quietly about its business. 
Bright birds dart among the trees. 
Warblers, overcome with the joys of 
living, fairly swell their throats in 
gladsome song. Beautifully, dumbly 
eloquent, a majestic, nobler brother on 
motionless wings poises far overhead. 

Or if you are early enough at Mont¬ 
erey Bay, you may see the sun nuzzle 
little clouds away from the mountain 
tops, and claim his sky. The great 
hills over the bay a milky pink—the 
bay as flat as glass and every pastel 
tint upon its surface! Nowhere but 
under distant piers are deepened hues. 
You have seen unstrung pearls on 

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F U L F I 

satin trays? Such colors you will see 
where Monterey Bay is marked on 
maps. It is exquisite, sheer—exaspe' 
ratingly impossible of reproduction! 

A jaunt on the Peninsula’s Famous 
Seventeen'Mile Drive unfolds an ever' 
changing panorama of scenic beauty. 
One sees every sort of glorious thing, 
from the most wonderful champion' 
ship golf'courses, to primitive forests, 
great forbidding shores, flower'girt 
little homes, great expansive villas 
recessed in the hills. And so on, end' 
lessly. 

At eventide, you may pause in awe' 
some wonder where thousands of gulls 
take wing from the land. Off'shore 
they head, where giant, jutting rocks 
knee'deep in breaking waves invite 
them. There is incessant fluttering 
and clouds of gulls rise and fall be' 
tween the shore and rocks. Finally 
the sky is cleared of the countless 
wings, and the rocks are blanketed 
with gulls retired till dawn. 

Then we may follow a ribbon road, 
winding its way into a cordon of trees. 
Within them is a typical Peninsula 
home. It is shaded by magnificent 
branches of the aged forest tribes. 
Again it is bathed in the warm sun 
that sinks each night into the peaceful 
ocean. There is an expanse of smooth 
lawn giving way at one side to a great 
outgrowth of cypresses from the for' 
est. On another side, it blends into 
a several'acre bed of breeze'swayed 
flowers. 

From the stretch of wide veranda, 
a great rollicking hill drops down to 
the bay—deep, gorgeous blue. No 
water is so clear, so inviting, so clean, 
as here. Breakers over all the earth may 
die in chaste'appearing foam. But no' 
where else do waves appear so trans' 
parent and sapphiredike in color. 

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L M E N T 

In the evening, the man who lives 
on such a hill, sees night descend in 
entrancing beauty. First there is 
twilight. The sun sinks slowly into 
the ocean. Hill tops far away are 
radiant as the last rays lightly bid them 
adieu. The great trees push long 
fingers of shade toward nodding 
flowers, to prepare them for the deep' 
er shades of night. Purple haze settles 
over the mountains. Birds in the 
gardens sing sweet nocturnes. A 
friendly moon enquiringly peeks over 
the tree tops, and finding the gentle' 
ness of eve before him, lifts into his 
vaulted sky. 

The stars are brilliant. Hardly out 
of reach they are, flirting with the 
lights of cozy launches, reflected on 
the silent bay. How close are stars 
to you? Here on the Peninsula, they 
twinkle just above our heads like fairy 
guardians of our happy homes. 

Another time you might go south 
of Carmel, where bay meets ocean, 
and Point Lobos juts—a natural mon' 
arch—far toward the western sun. 
Buttressed rocks, rough piled in aeons 
past, tower defiantly over the deep 
green seas, inviting to anyone who 
would stand atop the earth. By dint 
of a little exertion, you may get to the 
uttermost, uppermost point. Gaunt 
trees lightly clothe the virgin rocks 
and wierdly twist their low and naked 
branches over primitive paths. 

The blue bay sweeps from you in a 
foam fringed curve. Far below your 
feet are eddies of clear, lashing waters, 
mingling with swirls from black' 
mawed caverns no one knows how 
deep. Here is reverence'compelling 
union of all Creation’s elements. Here 
men feel how great is Universe and 
how small are we. Here one may well 
conjecture California had her genesis. 












F U L F I 

Near at hand, the roadway taps the 
Carmel Valley, where velvet sided 
hills grow into rugged mountains, and 
on their other side reluctantly give 
way to level pastures. 

Occasional ranch houses snuggle in' 
to narrow glens and fairly dare the 
hills to push them into smiling fields 
of grain. As afternoon wanes, shad' 
ows cast by high, smooth humps 
slowly touch the flats to sleep and the 
varying chains of scenic treats sink 
themselves in soft twilight hazes. The 
broad Pacific valley settles into slumber. 

I IFE on the Peninsula is one long 
J round of companionship with 
kindly Nature. All modern things 
are here. But Nature is so bountifully 
present that you hold communion 
with her daily. Is it any wonder 
hearts are light on the Peninsula? Is 
it any wonder men find their legs 
springier, their lungs more eager and 
grateful? Is it to be wondered that 
here shoulders lift and cares are for' 
gotten? Why the exertions toward a 
livelihood if the soul be not feasted as 
well as the body? What is the use of in' 
come if you are not completely happy? 
What is the use of means, if you are 
not in perfect accord with your own 
life, and your living? 

Here, you may gaze just so long on 
Nature’s countenance; you may just 
so long drink in the blessings of com' 
fort and content—then your heart 
swells with thanksgiving, and you 
are reborn in youthful gratitude for 
Life! 

Here you may build a home as pa' 
latial or as modest as the taste and in' 


L M E N T 

come which will give it birth. You 
will never find it hot here. You will 
never find it cold. Temperature 
tables untampered with, shown else' 
where in this book, are your bond for 
this. 

You may have a marine or a moun' 
tain view, or both. Woods, hills, vah 
leys, bays, the open sea—every ele' 
ment that has made Nature loved of 
man since Time began, is here in one 
measure or another. Here for you— 
your family, your health, your pleas' 
ure and your happiness. 

There are sites for all tastes, all in' 
comes—for your particular require' 
ments. You may situate in a rustic 
spot, or you may landscape and culti' 
vate your ground. You may indulge 
in flower culture for pleasure, or per' 
haps commercially. You may build 
where you will have refined retire' 
ment and seclusion, or you may build 
where your little garden will hobnob 
with a neighbor’s little garden. But 
wherever it be, many of your blessings 
will be in common with the other 
lovers of the Peninsula. Flowers will 
bloom as unquestioningly for you as 
for anyone. Birds will grace your trees 
as they grace the trees of others. The 
bays, the sea, hills, vales, and all are 
yours! You will become joint holder 
of the natural loveliness of this special 
much'loved portion of the earth. 

Here, the population is small, the 
area great. We seek only a visit from 
you. If you come among us and are 
our type, you will stay among us—or 
return. Then you will find how great 
a thing it is to be! And if you’ve 
really hoped and longed for better 
days, you’ll find fulfilment. 


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Some of the 
Peninsula’s 
Schools. 
Pacific Grove 
High School 
at left. 




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Pacific Grove 
Grammar School 
above, and Mon¬ 
terey Grammar 
School at left. 


















PART TWO 


R ICH in tradition and legend, 
the Monterey Peninsula is also 
l, rich in material memorials of 
her old days. Visitors to California 
never tire of viewing the Peninsula’s 
historic buildings. Before them, with 
dreamy eyes one may pierce the misty 
veils of the past, and see the long gone 
generations live once more. 

MISSIONS AT MONTEREY AND CARMEL 

On June 3, 1770, Father Serra 
founded the San Carlos Mission of 
Monterey. But little later, it was re¬ 
moved to the Carmel Valley, about 
six miles distant. Now it is called 
Carmel Mission. Father Serra and 
fifteen Governors of the early territory 
are buried in this consecrated church. 
It is the most famous of all Franciscan 
Missions, and is visited by thousands 
of tourists annually. 

The Church of San Carlos de Mont¬ 
erey was erected in 1794, and was 
known as the Royal Chapel. Here 
worshipped the representatives of the 
King of Spain. It is an interesting old 
structure. The transept and present 
main altar were erected in 1858. 

THE CUSTOM HOUSE 

To most people, the Old Custom 
House in Monterey is the most inter¬ 
esting building on the Pacific Coast. 
In the earliest days, it was not only 
used for conduct of Royal business, 
but it was a social center for Spanish 
aristocrats. Here beneath the Spanish 
flag, pressing matters of state were 


settled, and gala balls were held. The 
upper end was built in 1814 by the 
Spaniards. The center section was 
built by the Mexicans when they had 
wrested independence from Spain. In 
1846, Commodore Sloat raised an 
American Flag over the building, and 
the lower end of the Custom House 
was built by the Americans. First 
Spanish, then Mexican, then United 
States property—the Custom House 
is now owned by the State of Cali¬ 
fornia. It is an adobe structure, and 
in good preservation. 

COLTON HALL 

Here was the cradle of the Western 
Empire: the first capitol of California. 
Commodore Stockton, who succeeded 
Commodore Sloat, appointed Rever¬ 
end Walter Colton the Alcalde of 
Monterey. Colton had been chaplain 
of the historic frigate Congress. Later, 
Colton was elected Alcalde by the 
people. Ambitious for a state house, 
he set about raising funds with typical 
fervor. Subscriptions, court fines, 
prison labor, gambling levies—all did 
their share toward rearing Colton 
Hall. Here in September, 1849, met 
the first Constitutional Convention of 
California. The City of Monterey 
now uses this ancient structure— 
which is in excellent condition—as a 
City Hall. 

California’s first brick house 

A stone’s throw from the Old 
Custom House stands the first brick 


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Historic Buildings. Reading from 
top doivn : San Carlos Church, 
Robert Louis Stevenson House, 
Colton Hall, Custom House, Old 
Pacific Building, Carmel Mission. 



























F U L F I 

structure California ever saw. A Vir- 
ginian named Dickinson built this 
home from bricks kilned in Monterey. 
In those days before the Gold Rush, 
it was a show spot of Monterey. Like 
the old adobes, it seems to rest eter¬ 
nally beneath the soft sun, and wonder 
why so many people regard it awe¬ 
somely. Recently, there was torn 
down in Monterey, the first house 
of milled-lumber built in California, 
brought here by an Australian who 
didn’t know trees grew in America. 

THE LARKIN HOUSE 

In 1832, Thomas O. Larkin came to 
Monterey. He opened a wholesale 
and retail store, and became the first 
and only United States Consul to 
California. Larkin performed stellar 
service toward bringing California 
under the American flag. The large 
adobe home he built almost a hundred 
years ago, is a point of great interest 
to visitors and is still occupied by a 
descendant of the builder. 

sherman’s headquarters 

Next to the Larkin house is another 
adobe built by Larkin in 1834. Here 
was headquartered William Tecumseh 
Sherman when he was stationed at 
Monterey. At that time—the man 
who was later to be a famous Civil 
War General was a Lieutenant. Gen¬ 
eral Halleck was headquartered at the 
same place. Sherman as a youth in 
Monterey, figured in one of Monte¬ 
rey’s wistful legends. 

SHERMAN ROSE HOUSE 

Young Sherman was enamored of 
“the most beautiful senorita of the 
town.’’ When he was ordered East 
he called to take his farewell. He was 
wearing a “cloth-of-gold” rose which 
the two of them reverently planted. 
Sherman declared that when the rose 
bloomed he would return for the 
Senorita. Years rolled by. The rose 


L M E N T 

grew and enveloped the Senorita’s 
doorway and wall with blossoming 
branches. Into old age waited the 
faithful Senorita, but Sherman never 
returned. Recently, Sherman Rose 
House was removed to make way for 
a modern bank building. It is being 
restored in another part of the city. 

HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS 

This rambling old structure was 
the first in this community to boast a 
weather vane. Thus it received its 
name. Also built by Larkin, the 
House of the Four Winds was the 
first Hall of Records of the State. It 
is now used as a Club building by the 
Monterey Woman’s Civic Club. 

California’s first theater 

This was one of California’s proud¬ 
est spots in early days. Here Span¬ 
iards, Mexicans, and Americans gath¬ 
ered for entertainment and diversion. 
In 1847, strolling thespians from Los 
Angeles played here in the long-for¬ 
gotten drama, “Putnam, or the Lion 
Son of ’76.’’ In 1849 and 1850, one of 
America’s most famous early humor¬ 
ists regaled audiences here. “John 
Phoenix’’and “Squibob’’he was called, 
though his name was Lieutenant John 
Derby. Here the beloved Jenny Lind 
is supposed to have sung on her Amer¬ 
ican tour in 1850-52. This building is 
now used as an historical museum. 

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HOUSE 

Here is one of America’s most loved 
shrines. Stevenson, attracted here 
from Europe by the woman who be¬ 
came his wife, started his many Pe¬ 
ninsula jaunts from this old building. 
In this great old adobe, Stevenson be¬ 
gan “The Amateur Emigrant,’’ wrote 
“The Pavilion on the Links’’ and his 
essay on Thoreau. From this home, 
Stevenson explored the Peninsula, and 
gathered site descriptions for later 
books, such as Treasure Island. This 


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literary memorial is said to be visited 
by more people annually than any 
other in the world, save only Shakes¬ 
peare’s home at Stratford-on-Avon. 

POINT PINOS LIGHTHOUSE 

Point Pinos was named by Viscaino 
when he named Monterey in 1602. 
On this headland, about two miles 
west of Pacific Grove, is one of the 
oldest lighthouses of the Pacific Coast. 
Built about the time of the Gold Rush, 
it has long been a beacon of safety to 
countless mariners. 

SLOAT MONUMENT 

There is one monument outside of 
Washington, D. C., partially financed 
by congress in commemoration of an 
officer’s deeds. That single monument 
stands on the Monterey Peninsula. 
Congress appropriated $10,000 toward 
this memorial, which honors the man 
who took possession of California for 
the United States in 1846. On a hill 
in the Federal reservation it rests, 
with a granite base built of contribute 
ed blocks from 35 California counties, 
cities and interested organizations. 


L M E N T 

OLD PACIFIC BUILDING 

This is the home of Monterey Pe¬ 
ninsula Communities Incorporated— 
a non-profit organization of citizens of 
the communities of the Monterey 
Peninsula, interested in the Peninsula’s 
sound development. This old ’dobe 
was built in 1847 by Thomas O. Lark¬ 
in. The upper story was used as a 
boarding house for sailors. The first 
floor served as courthouse, jail, and 
storehouse. All windows, above and 
below, were iron-barred to protect 
the inmates against Indians and ma¬ 
rauders. In the old Mexican days the 
back yard, surrounded by a high 
adobe wall, was used for bear and 
bull fights. In 1866 the property came 
into the possession of the Jacks family. 
It makes a fitting office for an organiza¬ 
tion such as Monterey Peninsula 
Communities Incorporated, bent on 
making this historic and beauteous 
section of California better known to 
the world. In this staunch old adobe 
you will be cordially welcomed if 
you will call on us and you will be 
given information and literature which 
will help you to more pleasantly be¬ 
come acquainted with the Peninsula. 


Golf and Other Sports 


G OLF ranks first among the Penin¬ 
sula’s sports. Here, the golfer 
experiences new heights of enjoy¬ 
ment, new thrills of exhilaration and 
satisfaction, and most likely new sen¬ 
sations of improvement. 

There are two splendid courses on 
the Peninsula; one on the Hotel Del 
Monte grounds, the other at Del 
Monte Lodge, near Pebble Beach. 
Tees, fairways, and greens are verdant 
throughout the year on the Del Monte 
course. The Lodge course skirts 
woodlands, crosses sandy dunes, paral¬ 
lels rugged cliffs and sandy beaches. 
This second course—on the very edge 


of the Pacific—is called the “sportiest” 
in the United States. 

The championship character of the 
courses is attested by their selection 
for the State title tournaments each 
year. Then other tournaments are 
held here. As many as forty-five a 
year have been played, open to all 
amateurs on week-ends and holidays. 

The courses are kept in the finest 
condition throughout the year, and 
the balmy climate makes playing al¬ 
ways pleasant. Winter and summer 
the game is equally popular. A round 
gives one inspiring vistas and views of 
forests, mountains and sea. Polo also 

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-4 feiv glimpses of typical Penin¬ 
sula sports. From championship 
golf to polo,from hiking to tennis. 
The nimrod and the fisherman find 
great sport here, too. 









F U L F I 

is played on the Peninsula on two Del 
Monte fields. 

The fragrance of trees and flowers, 
and the invigorating tang of the ocean 
add immensely to the zest of the game, 
and without discomfort, two rounds 
of 18 holes may easily be played in a 
day. Even in the rainy season, there 
is rarely a day when a round may not 
more comfortably and happily be made 
than anywhere else. Golf enthusiasts 
find here new charm and new tonic 
in the game. 

Tennis is played on excellent courts 
at Del Monte, Monterey, Asilomar, 
Pacific Grove, Pebble Beach and 
Carmel. On the Peninsula, tennis is 
a year round game. Winter playing 
is delightful. Summers are never too 
warm for best play. 

Horseback riding is a premier sport 
on the Peninsula. There are miles 
and miles of intriguing bridle paths 
through Del Monte forest and over 
the rugged mountain trails below 
Carmel and the Highlands. There is 
“fish-hook curve” to follow around 
Monterey Bay, and the halfmoon 
beach at Carmel. For a strenuous 
ride, there is the mountainous coast' 
line to the south, and twisting trails 
through the Santa Lucia range. 

Aquatic sports are indulged in 
more commonly each year. There are 
outdoor plunges and several beaches. 
The beach at Pacific Grove, facing the 
east is always protected, and year 
round surf bathing is enjoyed here. 
At Carmel is another beach, popular 
with Peninsula residents and visitors. 
Motor boating and sailing are popU' 
lar. The clear blue water of the bays 
is sometimes dotted with small craft. 

Pacific Grove has famous roque 
courts which are annually visited by 
roque enthusiasts from far and wide. 
A roque organization keeps interest in 
the game high. 

Fishermen never find such sport as 
around the Peninsula. Due to meet' 
ing in Monterey Bay of currents from 


L M E N T 

opposite directions, more forms of 
marine life are prevalent here than 
anywhere else in the world. Several 
important biological laboratories have 
been established on the Peninsula 
through virtue of this fact. Salmon, 
fighting yellow'tail, pompano, sea 
bass, barracuda, albacore, sea trout, 
tuna, rock cod, smelt, sand dabs, 
flounders—and on into an astounding 
list of game fish are caught here. 

Trout fishing is good in the mourn 
tain streams of the Peninsula. When 
the season is early, and there are steel' 
head in the streams, it is a common 
sight to see fishermen along the Car' 
mel River landing four to tempound' 
ers. 

For the fisherman who wants 
gamey fish, there is thrill after thrill. 
For the fisherman who wants less 
fight and finny results, there is grati' 
fication. You who love fishing have 
new treats in store on the Peninsula. 

Hunting on the Peninsula is real 
sport. There is game to suit the in' 
dividual and the arms. Countless 
valley quail, known as the gamest of 
all small birds, abound on the Penim 
sula. In nearby hills are mountain 
quail galore. In season, ducks are 
common, and provide much pleasure 
for those who like to hunt web'footed 
game. 

Deer and mountain lions are to be 
had in the ranges, and according to 
the Fish and Game Commission, no 
part of the state has more abundant 
deer. You, then, who find great sport 
in rifle and in shot'gun, can test your 
veriest skill on game to match your 
mood. 

By all means if you love the great 
outdoors, and if you care for sport and 
communion with Nature, you will 
revel in the glories of the Monterey 
Peninsula. Description fails to con' 
vey the yeanround wonders of these 
communities. A visit to the Penim 
sula is the only way to measure its 
blessings—and its offerings. 


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FULFILMEN T 

Literature on the Peninsula 


P ERHAPS no spot on earth has 
been so loved by people who have 
accomplished things, as the Monterey 
Peninsula. Tributes have been glow-* 
ingly included in the writings of cele' 
brated authors since the early eighteen 
hundreds. There are warm apprecia' 
tions and wistful eulogies, colorful 
descriptions and impassioned endorse' 
ments. 

An awesomely great aggregation 
there would be if the famous person' 
ages of the Peninsula could fore' 
gather, and pool their kindly praises 
of our home. But let us briefly mention 
a few of those who here found delight 
and an elixir of happy living. 

Captain Robinson was one of the 
first to treat of Monterey. In 1829, 
his Monterey was a sleepy, lovable 
place—described in his “Life of Cali' 
forma.” At that time, cattle grazed 
where now stand most of Monterey’s 
businesses. 

In 1835, Richard Henry Dana found 
Monterey but little changed. In 
“Two Years Before the Mast,” Mont' 
erey appears a colorful town on a 
gorgeous bay. Dana was a youthful 
sailor then, and appreciated the hill' 
top fort—the Presidio, then the 
center of the town’s activities. With 
Dana’s masterpiece as your guide— 
a fit companion to “Robinson Crusoe” 
William Cullen Bryant observed—you 
may wander through Pacific Grove, 
Monterey, Pebble Beach, and Carmel, 
following his very footsteps. Dana 
in those early days ate his snack of 
“salt horse” where you may now play 
golf. And you may enter ’dobe build' 
ings which Dana visited four score 
years ago. Dim, romantic figures stand 
out vividly in Dana’s descriptions, and 
to him we are indebted for historic pic' 
tures of rare charm. Literary pilgrims 
find pleasure here in annotating copies 
of “Two Years Before the Mast.” 


Bayard Taylor, poet, essayist, and 
travel writer walked from San Fran' 
cisco to Monterey, in 1849. Here he 
was a spectator at the sessions of the 
constitutional delegates. After the 
gold rush, he wrote in “El Dorado:” 
“Monterey has the appearance of a 
deserted town; few people in the 
streets, business deserted.” But times 
changed, even while Taylor lived. 

Most interesting of all literary land' 
marks on the Peninsula however, is 
the old adobe which Stevenson made 
his home. Here, the beloved “Louis” 
as he was then called, glorified in writ' 
ing. Here he rambled on long walks, 
exulted in Nature, and marvelled at 
wondrous trees and views. Aside 
from volumes written here, “Prince 
Otto” was planned in the “two airy 
rooms with the five windows” which 
you may see today. Here also he pre' 
pared copious notes for his “Old 
Pacific Capitol.” 

These words of Stevenson are re' 
vealing. “The ancient capital of Cali' 
fornia faces across the bay, while the 
Pacific Ocean, though hidden by low 
hills and forest, bombards her left 
flank and rear with never'dying surf. 
.... The waves which lap so 
quietly about the jetties of Monterey 
grow louder and larger in the distance; 
you can see the breakers leaping high 
and white by day; at night, the out' 
line of the shore is traced in transpar' 
ent silver by the moonlight and the 
flying foam; and from all round, even 
in quiet weather, the low, distant, 
thrilling roar of the Pacific hangs over 
the coast and the adjacent country 
like smoke above a battle. 

“The woods and the Pacific rule 
between them the climate of this sea' 
board region. On the streets of 
Monterey, when the air does not 
smell salt from the one, it will be blow' 


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fulfilment 


ing perfumed from the resinous tree' 
tops of the other.” 

Years after Stevenson’s friend Si' 
moneau had grown old, and Louis 
was dead, great sums were offered 
the old tamale vender for his many 
Stevenson letters. “They were not to 
the public,” he would remark, “They 
were Louis’ letters to me.” And the 
old man who might have lived his de' 
dining years in luxury, clung to his 
sheaf of Stevenson letters, and pre' 
ferred to live in poverty. 

Years after Stev' 
enson lived in Mon' 
terey, he used the 
Peninsula’s scenic 
background for the 
description of the 
island where Flint 
and his pirates 
buried treasure. The literary en- 
thusiast can find the very cave he 
reads of in Treasure Island, vvhere the 
Hispanola landed her treasure seekers. 
Here also, you may see the long 
stretches of sand dunes over which 
they toiled. Here are the thickets of 
live oaks in which Jim Hawkins con' 
cealed himself as he listened to the 
pirate conference. Here is the spot 
from which he beheld John Silver 
strike down with his crutch a mate 
who refused to join in the projected 
plan of murder. Stevenson cronies 
will find a wealth of references to make 
the Peninsula more interesting to 
them. The country of Treasure Is' 
land is within easy walking distance 
of the Peninsula Communities. 

Another famous writer whose name 
is linked with the Monterey Penim 
sula is Charles Warren Stoddard. “A 
Memory of Monterey” appearing in 
“In the Footprints of the Padres” is 
one of the most exquisite bits of writ' 
ing that ever came from his expressive 
pen. “She was a dear old stupid town 
in my day,” he writes, “Geese fed in 
the gutters and hissed at the passers' 


by. Cows graced by the wayside and 
eyed the wayfarer in grave surprise. 
Overhead the snow'white sea gulls 
wheeled and cried peevishly, and on 
the heights that ring the old Capital 
round on the landward side, the pine 
trees moaned and held the sea fog in 
their branches, while the little town 
was basking in the sunshine and 
dreaming its endless dream.” 

Stoddard—noted traveler that he 
was—made Monterey his home from 
the time he came in 
the early eighties, 
until his death in 
1909. He was laid to 
rest within sound of 
the long blue rollers 
which break on the 
tawny beach of 
Monterey — the 
sound he loved best of all. And the 
trade wind blowing salt from the sea, 
wafts with it soft perfumes from the 
“islands of tranquil delight, ’’which he 
loved so well. 

The Peninsula is still a “haven of 
all desire” to the brotherhood of 
writers. George Sterling—California 
poet—lived here while Stoddard was 
still alive. Mary Austin, coming 
down to the sea from the desert sage 
and blue distances of her “Land of 
Little Rain” found inspiration in the 
rugged pines, the silver dunes and 
sapphire waters of the Peninsula. She 
has her home—“The Wickiup” in 
Carmel. Here she wrote “Ysidro,” 
part of “The Flock,” and many of her 
“Lost Border Stories.” 

Harry Leon Wilson wrote “Bunker 
Bean,” “Ruggles of Red Gap,” and 
“Merton of the Movies” at Ocean 
Home, his estate at Carmel High' 
lands. 

Gouverneur Morris’ home is at 
Monterey—a flower surrounded, re' 
stored ’dobe—and he pays happy 
tribute to the “variedly, deliciously, 



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F U L F I 

and peacefully beautiful—Monterey 
Peninsula.” 

Peter Clark MacFarlane has his 
home in Pacific Grove—where he has 
done much of his best work. 

The home where Samuel G. Blythe 
writes many of his articles is at Pebble 
Beach. 

Other well known writers of the 
day who have their homes on the Pe' 
ninsula are Frederick Bechdolt, James 
Hopper, Alice Magowan, Grace Mac' 


L M E N T 

Gowan Cooke, John Northern HilL 
iard, and Robert Welles Ritchie. 
Writers of our Communities have 
been represented by stories and art' 
icles in as many as 46 out of 52 sue' 
cessive issues of the Saturday Evening 
Post. In addition to the numerous 
literati dwelling here, literary per' 
sons from the corners of the world 
come here every year to work and 
rest, and find clean inspiration in the 
glorious outdoors. 


Drama on the Peninsula 


I F you have imagination, conjure up 
in your mind a woodland amphi' 
theater. Feature a stage in a setting 
of towering pines, and seats on a 
fragrant hillside. Imagine a sump' 
tuous setting beyond the ingenuity of 
man to imitate. If your powers of 
envisioning are great enough, you may 
see in your mind’s eye the Forest 
Theater of CarmeLby'the'Sea, one of 
the most famous outdoor theaters of 
the world. 

In the fourteen years of its existence 
it has created a standard of acting and 
production that has made it famous 
wherever the drama is known. In 
order to appreciate the work of the 
Forest Theater players, it should be 
remembered that for the first years of 
its existence, CarmeLby'the'Sea was 
neither a town nor a village. It was 
a colony—a gathering of artists, 
scientists, professors, and literary 
folk. Here they were united by a 
common love of beauty, and appreci' 
ation for a climate most conductive to 
sustained application to their inter' 
ests. For Carmel has the most 
equable climate in the world. 

Out of the group evolved a desire 
for expression in another form of art— 
and the Carmelites dedicated this 
Forest Theater—their first Temple to 
Thespis. 

Here there is no practice of pro' 


fessionalism. People of the commun' 
ity do all the necessary things for 
creditable production of their plays. 
And on this rustic stage, independent 
of the traditions of indoor playhouses, 
the Carmelites have presented some 
four'score productions. Many of 
them stand as milestones which mark 
the advance of outdoor drama in Cali' 
fornia, where admittedly outdoor 
drama is at its best. 

The first play produced was 
“David,” a Biblical drama, in the sum' 
mer of 1910. Followed a long list 
which includes two plays by Mary 
Austin—“Fire” and “The Arrow 
Maker”—which she produced per' 
sonally; “Tusitala”—a masque of 
Robert Louis Stevenson, written 
especially for production in the Forest 
Theater; an extravaganza based on 
Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonder' 
land;” “Twelfth Night;” Benrimo 
and Hazelton’s naive “Yellow Jacket;” 
W. S. Gilbert’s “Pygmalion and Gala' 
tea;” “Kismet;” “A Midsummer 
Night’s Dream;” Bernard Shaw’s 
“Arms and the Man;” and “Andro' 
cles and the Lion.” 

There have also been produced a 
number of original plays by native and 
outside writers. Every year the For' 
est Theater Society offers a prize of 
$100 for the best outdoor play sub' 
mitted. This prize was won in 1923 


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by Helen Coale Crews of Chicago. 
Her play—“The Cradle”—was pn> 
duced in July. Principal productions 
are given every summer in Fourth of 
July week, at which time thousands 
of people make a pilgrimage to the 
Peninsula to attend the outdoor festh 
vals. These summer productions at 
Carmel are becoming as famous to 
California as Oberammergau’s pro' 
duction is to Europe. 

In addition to the Forest Theater, 
the Arts and Crafts Club of Carmel 
has maintained a Little Theater for 
many years. This Club has just built 
a new and thoroughly up'to'date 


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Theater for its productions. Pageants 
and celebrations are not unusual on the 
Peninsula. The people of Carmel 
usually give an historical pageant in 
their woods each year. There is an 
annual al fresco carnival at Pacific 
Grove known as “The Feast of Lam 
terns,” and one of Monterey’s annual 
fetes is the Peninsula Industries and 
Arts Exposition. Artists, craftsmen, 
industrial and business people of the 
Peninsula combine to display to the 
outside world what is done in their 
communities. These festivals and 
celebrations bring thousands of visb 
tors to the Peninsula every year. 



From the hack of 
the Forest Theater. 
Looking down the 
sloping forest floor 
to the stage. 


Realistic settings 
mark the produc¬ 
tions of the Carmel 
players. A typically 
effective set of the 
Forest Theater. 


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Art on the Peninsula 


T HE Monterey Peninsula has long 
been a favorite haunt of artists. 
Here has dwelt the inspiration which 
fed the genius of many talented souls. 
Outdoor art it has been—the virile 
art so closely wed to this locality. 

Some of the greatest artists of the 
world have come here to work under 
ideal conditions, where the very at' 
mosphere and their most common sur' 
roundings were an urge to accomplish' 
ment. 

It was inevitable then, by the kind' 
liness of Nature, that the Monterey 
Peninsula should become the art cem 
ter of the Pacific Coast. For those 
beauties which are not primitive or of 
nature, have been induced by the 
wonders of climate. The supernal 
colorings of mountains, the enraptur' 
ing loveliness of valleys, the fantastic 
beauty of trees, the quaint charm of 
adobe buildings, the picturesqueness 
of waterTronts—these and many more 
appeals are here for the artist. 

Thus up and down the world men 
would hear of this delightful land, and 
make pilgrimages from afar. There 
may have been wandering artists who 
painted the Peninsula before Jules 
Tavernier, but he was the first of 
world'wide fame to make his home 
here. Jules came to Monterey in 
1874, while the town was a drowsy, 
languid, Spanish settlement. His can' 
vases, born of the beauties of the 
Peninsula and the genius of his soul, 
have been eagerly sought for by famous 
collectors of both hemispheres. 

From his studio in Monterey he 
would wander forth about the Penim 
sula. Like Stevenson, he became a 
friend of Jules Simoneau. Sometimes 
lacking in gold or silver to pay his 
little bills with Simoneau, he’d call 
for blacking and stale beer. Then 
from lowly shoe'blacking would come 
forth an entrancing land or seascape 

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on Simoneau’s adobe walls. Alas! 
those walls have long been ruined. 
But what a mighty figure the connois' 
seur today would pay for one of those 
beer and blacking murals! 

Other artists of note who are as' 
sociated with the early days of the 
Monterey Peninsula are John Ivey—a 
well known water colorist of England, 
Keith, Yelland, Julian Rix, and Ar' 
thur Mathews—who later painted the 
mural decorations in the Mechanics 
Library of San Francisco and the 
rotunda of the Capitol at Sacramento. 

Later came such farTamed men as 
Charles Rollo Peters, Francis Me' 
Comas, Maynard Dixon, and Xavier 
Martinez. McComas still lives in 
Monterey. William Ritschell, re' 
garded as one of the three greatest 
marine painters of the age, has an ini' 
posing studio at Carmel Highlands. 
Bruce Nelson and Armin Hansen, 
men famous in this country and abroad 
live in Monterey. Jo Mora, most 
eminent California sculptor, lives on 
the Peninsula, and has just completed 
the sarcophagus of Father Junipero 
Serra at Carmel. 

Paul Mays, water colorist and 
mural decorator, lives in Carmel, as 
do William Watts, William Silva, and 
De Neale Morgan. Cornelius Botke 
of Carmel and Jessie Arms Botke are 
well known Peninsula artists. Fred 
Gray and Percy Gray of Monterey, 
Albert Barrows, Clayton Price, Will' 
iam Adam, Charles Bradford Hudson 
and Mary Woods are familiar names 
to followers of art and all of them live 
on the Peninsula. 

Here also, are to be found large and 
flourishing art classes. Every sum' 
mer, students from every quarter of 
the globe gather to study on the 
Peninsula. Conditions are most favor' 
able, for they may live as well as paint 
outdoors. The Arts and Crafts Club 


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of Carmel has held summer courses in 
painting, drawing, and sculpture for 
the last eighteen years. No less a 


master than the late William Chase 
was among the instructors of this 
organisation. 


Peninsula Social Life 


S OCIAL life on the Monterey Pern 
insula is one of the most gratify" 
ing charms of its several communities. 
They are a hospitable folk here. This 
is traditional from the old Spanish 
days. In that early romantic age 
everybody kept open house and the 
stranger within the gates was made 
welcome with true Castilian courtesy. 
The spirit, if not the elaborate form of 
this old"World courtesy survives to" 
day. It would be difficult to find a 
more simple, hearty, openhanded, 
generous people than those who make 
up the communities of the Monterey 
Peninsula. 

Here is democracy in its truest, 
noblest sense. Here men and women 
are judged more for what they are 
than for what they have. Here man 
is gauged by what he has accomplish" 
ed rather than by what he has accum' 
ulated. Here the man of small or 
moderate means is the peer of the man 
with the big house and the landed 
estate. Here people who sincerely 
like each other foregather with urn 
affected friendliness. 

Here one dresses as unconvention" 
ally as he pleases, for outdoor comfort 
rather than sartorial effect is the aim. 
The oddest dressed individual you 
encounter here may very well be one 
of the greatest marine painters in the 
world, a distinguished scientist, the 
president of a great university, the 
writer of a book that is on everyone’s 
tongue, or the author of a reigning 
success on Broadway. Indeed, it is an 
unwritten law that the dress suit shall 
not be worn at any function however 
elaborate, in Carmel"by"the"Sea. 

It is no exaggeration to state that 
you may travel the world over and 


not find a community where you can 
lead so delightful and desirable a 
social life on a moderate fixed income 
as here. While it is true that many 
people of wealth have been attracted 
to this wonder spot with its unrivaled 
climate, and have built them large and 
imposing residences on extensive 
estates, still the Monterey Peninsula 
is preeminently the seat of small, 
attractive homes. And nowhere else 
can a man or woman get so much out 
of life, social or otherwise, as in the 
communities that make up the Penin" 
sula. 

Almost any type of social life is 
here for the choosing. If you are 
artistic or literary, there are literary 
and art organizations in Monterey, 
Pacific Grove, and Carmel"by"the"Sea. 
If you have a fondness for the drama, 
the Forest Theater Society of Carmel 
will welcome you as a member. Are 
you interested in music, dancing, 
painting, sculpture, the indoor drama 
or any of the hand crafts, the Arts and 
Crafts Club of Carmel is open to you. 
The Arts and Crafts Club has a new 
and thoroughly equipped theater for 
the indoor drama, and here plays are 
given every month during the winter 
season. The stranger in the com" 
munity who wishes to take up the 
drama is welcomed into this Club. 

If you are a nature lover, there are 
bird clubs, flower clubs, and tree clubs 
to claim your allegiance. If you are a 
garden enthusiast, you will join the 
Outdoor Circle. The Outdoor Circle 
is composed of enthusiastic amateur 
gardeners from all the communities. 

In Monterey the Woman’s Civic 
Club is active in the social life of the 
city. And the Presidio at Monterey 


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is noted for its brilliant social affairs 
and military balls. 

Then there is the Pacific Grove 
Musical Society, an important organ' 
Ration of instrumentalists and vocal' 
ists, lending much to the social life of 
the Peninsula. The orchestra is com' 
posed of thirty pieces and there are 
forty voices in the chorus. The aims 
of the society are toward bettering 
music for the communities and pro' 
vision for expression of musical talent. 
No restrictions are placed upon mem' 
bership, save that one must have 
musical education sufficient to be con' 
structive and not destructive in the 
work of the ensemble. Both chorus 
and orchestra are under expert pro' 
fessional direction. Talented persons 
from all our communities belong to 
the Society, and for many people much 


is added to the joys of Peninsula life, 
by this organization. 

On the other hand, if you seek more 
glittering social life there is Del 
Monte, which at the height of its 
season is a Paris by the Sea. Del 
Monte is the camp of fashion, and 
exuberant and sparkling are its social 
events. During golf tournaments, 
polo championships and summer en' 
campments, no place is more modernly 
gay and fashionable. Del Monte, and 
Pebble Beach—the Deauville of the 
Western World—reflect throughout 
the year the tastes of people of wealth 
and affluence. In other words, here is 
social brilliance for those who seek it. 

The social scheme of the Monterey 
Peninsula is most comprehensive, and 
people of widely divergent tastes will 
find here what pleases them most and 
suits their requirements best. 



Schools of the Peninsula 


P ENINSULA people are largely 
people of education and culture. 
They provide for their children edu' 
cational advantages that compare 
favorably with the best in the 
country. It should be remembered 
that California shares honors of lead' 
ership in school efficiency with vener' 
able Massachusetts. And Peninsula 
schools have played their share in 
ranking California thus in the educa' 
tional forefront. 

The school population of the Pen' 
insula is 1,700. There are two large 
high schools and four main grammar 
schools. Monterey Union High 


School is a most modern building of 
mission style—white with red'tile 
roof. It was built—not to dissipate a 
school appropriation—but to meet 
the most exacting requirements of 
Peninsula residents. 

Here children are taught secondary 
school subjects amid the most ap' 
proved surroundings. Modern facili' 
ties are here at their best. There is a 
science building with eight class' 
rooms, and complete equipment for 
the various science courses in the cur' 
riculum. A modern manual training 
department, domestic science plant, 
complete gymnasium and athletic 


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field are among those things provided 
to make well-rounded boys and girls 
of Peninsula youths. (See page 21) 

The arts and the aesthetic are no 
less well considered and indulged. 
The school has a model theater for 
amateur dramatic entertainments. In 
lighting and stage equipment, this 
school theater will compare with any 
of the country’s “Little Theaters.” 

This school is situated on a green 
hill which overlooks the blue waters 
of Monterey Bay. Nowhere are bet¬ 
ter advantages afforded students of 
high school age. Two hundred and 
fifty students are enrolled, with seven¬ 
teen instructors on the staff. Ob¬ 
viously, this is an unusual ratio of 
students and instructors. 

Pacific Grove has another high 
school of first rank. It, too, overlooks 
Monterey Bay. Here, complete mod¬ 
ern curriculums are placed before the 
students. Commercial and manual 
training courses are listed. The school 
has its own gymnasium and machine 
shop, athletic field and laboratory 
equipment. The school is, of course, 
accredited by all colleges and universi¬ 
ties. Enrollment is 200 in this school, 


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with twelve instructors. The Pacific 
Grove Grammar School and the Mon¬ 
terey Grammar School are both mod¬ 
ern and up-to-date. Ventilation, 
lighting, sanitary arrangements and 
other conditions are all calculated to 
best suit the needs of students—not 
of politics. The Pacific Grove School 
was but recently completed, and is a 
splendid example of modern school 
architecture. 

Sunset School at Carmel-by-the-Sea 
accommodates grammar school chil¬ 
dren of that district. It is a charming 
building of Spanish design, and stands 
on the edge of a pine and oak forest. 
Here in most beautiful surroundings, 
children absorb instruction under 
modern conditions and tutelage. 

Large auto buses are maintained by 
the high school districts of the Penin¬ 
sula to convey pupils from the rural 
districts to and from school. 

Pacific Grove is the home of the 
Hopkins Marine Biological Labora¬ 
tory — a branch of Stanford Uni¬ 
versity. Specimens of the southern 
seas and the northern, meet at Mont¬ 
erey Bay, richest in biological speci¬ 
mens of all the waters of the world. 


Homes and Building Costs 


N OWHERE can a greater assort¬ 
ment of homes—types and styles 
—be found, than in the Peninsula 
Communities. For here are sites 
which will accommodate at their best, 
homes of every description. To suit 
tastes and purses which are as far 
apart as the stars, there are Peninsula 
homes. But the most modest is 
equally blessed by Nature, with the 
most palatial. A jaunt about the Pen¬ 
insula will reveal the most entranc¬ 
ing wee bungalows and cottages, 
sometimes set deep in a grotto of 
pines: again perched on hill-tops amid 
smiling flowers, and basking in the 
kindly sun. Always inviting, they are. 


Then there are castles of medieval 
appearance, resting on lofty cliffs, 
commanding sapphire bays. There 
are Spanish type homes, glistening 
white in the sunlight, polychrome 
walls reflecting parting day; tile roofs 
above leaded stained glass windows; 
old adobes with cool patios; grill- 
railed balconies with majestic out¬ 
look; recessed nooks thick with flow¬ 
ers; and myriad details of architect¬ 
ural beauty which cannot be mention¬ 
ed. Elaborate mansions there are, 
and cozy, nestling, tiny homes. There 
are vast estates and there are friendly 
little lots to suit all tastes. 

The man of unlimited means may 


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indulge his fondest fancies here, for 
sites are inspiring, and bewilderingly 
beautiful. Stucco, stone, brick, adobe, 
logs—he may build of what he will, 
in the woods, on a hill'top, astride a 
cliff, in the open—wherever his 
cherished dreams shall bid him. 

For the man of modest income, 
there is opportunity as great. The 
Peninsula is large. There is room for 
his charming little home. It may be 
on familiar terms with neighbors, or 
it may be removed from its kind, and 
afford him privacy in the extreme. 
Only a tour of inspection will serve to 
acquaint the prospective builder with 
the wealth of perfectly inviting sites. 

Land values vary with location, of 
course. Be it only said they fit all 
purses. Building conditions are aver" 
age. Labor is at ordinary union rates. 


Redwood and Oregon pine are the 
most commonly used lumbers. All 
material prices are substantially the 
same as those prevailing in metropolis 
tan centers. 

Many beautiful homes in Monterey 
have been made of adobes a hundred 
years old or more. They have tre' 
mendously thick walls, and may be 
beautifully restored. One residence 
section is restricted now to homes of 
Spanish type. Here, many new adobe 
homes are to be erected. The adobe 
blocks are made right on the spot, as 
also are clay tile for roofs. 

Investigate the Monterey Com' 
munities. Here, where many famous 
people have lived in the past—and 
where many of them live today, “is 
the pleasantest place in the world for 
a residence.” 



Flowers of the Peninsula 


F LOWER fanciers have said that 
from the year’s beginning to its 
end, nowhere in the world is the heart 
of the flowerdover carried along in 
such continuous joy and delight as on 
the Monterey Peninsula. 

Each season clothes hills, fields, and 
roadsides in seemingly ever more 
ecstatic growth of beauty than the 
last. Each year, according to slight 
variations or modulations of breezes 
and temperature, there is a peculiar 


group of visitants that has been dor- 
mant the preceding season. It seems 
no year can accommodate them all. 
So erstwhile forgotten flowers of the 
fields or woods suddenly appear, and 
we have a lupin year, or a baby'blue' 
eyes year. 

Again, collinseas are in profusion, 
which in turn give way to cream cups, 
whispering bells, or godetias. Con' 
ditions ideally favorable to each va' 
riety come with regularity, and the 


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Peninsula is sweetly peopled with a 
host of smiling flowers. 

This year, forget-me-nots and so- 
catto gordo of the stock man were 
everywhere. Next year perhaps will 
be a riotous year for wild hollyhocks. 
There are some friends, however, 
which appear year in and year out— 
confirmed devotees of the Peninsula. 
Shooting stars, fairy lanterns, blue' 
eyed grass, misty blue catnip, purple 
milkweed—for instance. 

Companions to these wild flowers 
are ferns of many varieties which lift 
their fronds from southern slopes. 
Lady ferns there are, scented ferns, 
sword ferns, dainty maiden hairs, and 
many others. In damp canyons, one 
finds handsome woodwardias with 
great fronds six to even ten feet high. 

Flowering trees and shrubs are 
rampant on the Peninsula. Elders, 
choke cherries, wild lilacs, buckeyes, 
horse-chestnuts, the distinctive ma- 
drona and the holly cherry are here. 
Wild currants, the rare Fremontia, 
buckthorn, snow berries, and a host 
of others are here. 

Then where the land slopes to the 
sea, flowers run riot in sheets of won- 

The Peninsula’s 

C ALIFORNIA has long been 
famous for its gold. It therefore 
surprises most people to learn that the 
horticultural production of this state 
is greater than gold production in 
dollars and cents. But it is true, says 
the California Development Associa¬ 
tion. And the Monterey Peninsula 
played its part in establishing this 
horticultural importance. 

Here one finds conditions ideal for 
the growing of bulbs; bulbs so excel¬ 
lent that markets await them eagerly. 
The demand for flowering bulbs has 
grown phenomenally in recent years. 
This increased demand added to the 
certainty that in another year or two 


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derful color. Whole fields are ablaze 
with California poppies, which bloom 
the year round in bright happy 
colors. Hanging gardens of the rocks 
periodically break into bloom with all 
the hues of a brilliant rainbow. 
Nestling against rugged ledges, and 
pushing their long, sensitive roots 
into helpful crevices, there are thick 
blankets of sedums, buckwheat, sea 
cinerarias, and beach primroses. Of 
ravishing beauty, they transform the 
rocks they reach, and introduce sheer 
glory into jagged cliffs. 

One might think where there are 
such numberless wild flowers, there 
would be little need for gardens. But 
Peninsula families love flowers, and 
gardens are numerous, and carefully 
tended. Outside of strictly tropical 
plants, everything can be grown on 
the Peninsula. 

Travelled people who are raising 
flowers say that probably nowhere 
else in all the world is there a spot 
more favorable to the year ’round 
rowing of flowers. To see Peninsula 
owers in their gay gamut of color and 
form, is to adore them. Peninsula 
people live always with flowers! 

Bulb Industry 

the importation of all bulbs from 
foreign countries will be terminated 
by action of Congress, predicts a most 
interesting future for Monterey Pen¬ 
insula bulbs. A few years ago 
practically all the bulbs used in this 
country were imported from Holland. 
Now California not only supplies 
practically all the bulbs used in this 
country, but is invading the foreign 
markets as well—even shipping to 
Holland herself. 

A large share of this bulb produc¬ 
tion Nature has allocated to the 
Monterey Peninsula. Almost over¬ 
night, as it were, bulb production has 
become important on the Peninsula. 


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The soil is just right, being mellow 
and just sandy enough to prevent 
packing and baking. The climate is 
congenial and offers unsurpassed ad' 
vantages of pollenation and the 
growth of new varieties. 

The bulb industry on the Peninsula 
took its start in Pacific Grove, which 
has long been famous for her wealth 
of flowers. The beginning was made 
with the dahlia, a native of old Mex' 

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ico. In 1872 this “King of Blossoms” 
was brought to the attention of the 
public and named after the Swedish 
botanist, Dr. Dahl. From a small be' 
ginning in Pacific Grove, dahlia culture 
has grown into an industry of prime 
importance on the Peninsula. 

Again thanks to our remarkable, 
equable climate they bloom contin' 
uously from June to November. Dup 
ing these months the dahlia gardens 



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of the Monterey Peninsula are the 
meccaof thousands of tourists. Colors, 
hues, and shades run riot. There are 
dahlias like sunsets, and like flame, 
dahlias shading from amber to gold, 
dahlias of Mandarin yellow, copper, 
vermeil and bronze, dahlias holding 
the burnished beauty of autumn 
leaves, the gorgeous livery of bright 
summer, and the ineffable hues of 
spring, dahlias as tiny as buttons and 
as broad as generous dinner plates. 
Here all colors and kinds are on dis¬ 
play bobbing their great heads frankly 
in the lavish sun. 

The months of November and De¬ 
cember find the tubers ready for 
harvest. The clumps are separated 
and stored awaiting the packing 
season. Shipments for the south, the 
Hawaiian Islands and the Orient be¬ 
gin in January, for the Pacific Coast 
section in February and March, while 
easterners are ready to plant about 
April or May. 

That the Monterey Peninsula is 
the natural home of the dahlia is 
proven by the fact that dahlias from 
this locality have won prizes all over 
the world. One of the local dahlia 
growers won the Gold Medal, the 
highest possible award, for the best 
general display at the Panama Pacific 
Exposition in San Francisco, in 1915. 
Monterey Peninsula dahlias won 


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thirteen prizes in 1922 when displayed 
at the flower exposition in Tarry- 
town, New York. The growers of 
this section have originated more than 
five hundred varieties of this gorgeous 
flower. 

While the dahlia industry on the 
Monterey Peninsula has seen persist¬ 
ent growth through about a decade 
and a half, the gladiolus bulb industry 
has grown startlingly fast. Here 
again the climatic conditions and the 
mellow soil with its modicum of sand 
have lent gladiolus growers great ad¬ 
vantages. In fact, the Monterey Pen¬ 
insula is the natural home of the glad¬ 
iolus as it is of the dahlia; and expert 
growers declare that bulbs grown here 
produce finer flowers than those 
grown elsewhere in this country or 
abroad. There are a number of gladiolus 
growers on the Monterey Peninsula 
who have produced new varieties of 
widely acknowledged merit. The use 
of the gladiolus as a cut flower has 
scarcely begun. The gladiolus may be 
shipped long distances without losing 
its freshness and beauty. It is easy 
of culture, can be grown upon inex¬ 
pensive land, and its market is expand¬ 
ing rapidly. Other bulbs that are 
increasing in popularity on the Mon¬ 
terey Peninsula are the crocus, 
hyacinth, freesia and narcissus. 


Poultry on the Peninsula 


T HERE are particular portions of 
the Peninsula which are pecul¬ 
iarly adapted for poultry raising. 
Persons seeking an ideal locality for a 
home, and a method of making a living 
on the spot, may well consider the 
poultry business. 

The Peninsula climate is the most 
equable in California, if not in the 
world. Here there are no extremes of 
heat and cold. Nor are there strong 
winds. Equable climate is most de¬ 


sirable for poultry raising. While 
hens can stand cold, egg records are 
never their best where hens get 
chilled. 

There is no soil in the state the 
peer of certain Peninsula soil for 
chicken farming. The long stretch of 
sandy loam bordering Monterey Bay, 
extending from Monterey to Marina, 
is ideal. Here are approximately ten 
thousand acres which may be readily 
watered. Water near the bay may be 


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reached at from 20 to 60 feet. Back 
in the hills, the maximum depth thus 
far has been 200 feet. Gentle trade 
winds in summer pump sufficient 
water to grow green feed for the ordi" 
nary chicken ranch. 

The land mentioned is moderately 
priced. It may be had for prices 
averaging a few hundred dollars per 
acre. The cheaper land is as ideally 
suited for poultry as the more ex" 
pensive. Proximity to valuable prop" 
erty and city lots is the principal 
factor of difference. 

There is ready market for poultry 
and eggs on the Peninsula. So far, 
the local demand has exceeded local 
supply. At the same time, outside 
markets have shown a marked dis" 
position to buy Peninsula eggs. They 
keep better than eggs produced in 
other districts. 

A few facts concerning one of the 
largest and most prosperous poultry" 
men on the Peninsula are to the point. 
He started four years ago on a small 
scale. Today he has seven acres and 
7,000 laying hens. He has his own 
breeding stock (white leghorns) and 


The Peninsulas 

O NE of the greatest industries on 
the Pacific Coast is located at 
Monterey, where an army of some 
twelve hundred fishermen ply their 
trade through all seasons of the year. 
These fishermen market millions of 
fish annually, bringing to the Mon" 
terey Peninsula an immense income 
every month. 

The fishing industry of Monterey 
Bay has grown with great strides of 
late years. Three decades ago it was 
more or less a precarious business. 
Skiffs and small sail boats, most of 
these home built, gaily painted, and 
carrying lateen sails, were used. To' 
day the boats are as gaily painted as 

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L M E N T 

raises 10,000 to 75,000 chickens a year. 

He produces between 3,500 and 
4,000 eggs per day, all of which are 
sold locally. A contract to deliver 
5,000 friers in a short season to local 
markets, is not unusual. Baby chicks 
are shipped by him to the middle 
west, to the Canadian line, and south 
to the Mexican border. 

He feeds about 280 chickens per 
day per dollar of cost. All supplies 
such as wheat, corn, barley and split 
peas he buys in the county. Green 
feed, he raises himself. 

It has been said as the result of an 
intelligent survey, that one should 
not attempt to make a living from the 
poultry business, with less than 1,000 
pullets. One acre can accommodate 
this many chickens, but two acres 
makes possible the growing of green 
feed, and a consequently lower over" 
head. 

Monterey Peninsula Communities 
will be pleased to answer specific 
queries of persons interested in con" 
sidering poultry raising here. Tur" 
keys, ducks, geese and pigeons may 
also profitably be raised here. 


Fishing Industry 

in the old days with hues that give 
to Monterey’s waterffront a colorful 
touch of the Mediterranean. But the 
lateen sail has given way to the mod" 
ern and more serviceable gasoline 
motor. Staunch, sea'going vessels are 
these motor fishing boats, and fully a 
thousand are used in the fishing in" 
dustry in the summer months. Thirty 
years ago the fishermen were mainly 
Chinese. Then came the Japanese, 
then the Portuguese. These, in turn, 
were supplanted by Sicilians and 
Italians, who make up the bulk of the 
fishing population of Monterey today. 

Only a little more than two decades 
ago the first fish cannery was built at 


F U L F I 

Monterey to can sardines. Today 
there are nine canneries running at 
full capacity. About seventy per 
cent of all sardines packed on the 
Pacific Coast are packed at Monterey. 
Over 46,340,000 pounds of sardines 
were canned in 1922, the total value 
of the canned product being estimated 
at $2,600,000. Fresh fish sold by 
fishermen in 1922 amounted to 5,687- 
281 pounds, for which fishermen were 
paid more than $170,000. 

Salmon are taken from the Mon¬ 
terey Bay in immense quantities and 
shipped to all parts of the country. 
In addition to salmon there are some 
125 other varieties of edible fish in 
these waters that are used in local 
markets and shipped abroad. There 
is a greater tonnage of fish shipped 
annually from Monterey Bay than 
from any other section of the Cali¬ 
fornia Coast. 

Experts in this industry predict 
that it will continue to grow at Mon¬ 
terey. They base their prediction on 
the following points: There is no 
other place on the California Coast 
which has in its waters such quanti¬ 
ties of the most desirable fishes as 
Monterey Bay; the consumption of 
fish is constantly on the increase; and 
Monterey has the most fishing days 
in the year of any place on the coast, 
due to calm weather and safe anchor¬ 
age in Monterey’s protected harbor. 


L M E N T 

Another growing branch of the 
commercial fishing of the Monterey 
Peninsula is that concerning itself 
with the abalone, the market for 
which is increasing every year. The 
abalone is one of the most character¬ 
istic molluscs of the Pacific Coast. 
They are abundant here, but are un¬ 
known on the Atlantic Coast. One 
of the popular sports of the Peninsula 
is abalone gathering. At low tide 
they may be taken a few yards from 
the rocky shore; but for commercial 
purposes, abalones are gathered by 
deep-sea divers. 

As food the abalone is the best of 
the marine molluscs. Its food value 
is very high, and it is the cleanest of 
all sea foods. To prepare the abalone 
for the table it first must be trimmed 
of its outside flesh. It is then sliced 
into steaks. These steaks are beaten 
until tender, when they are fried in 
butter or olive oil. Properly prepared 
and cooked the abalone steak is a most 
delectable food. It is equally delic¬ 
ious when served as chowder or 
minced. It is truly an epicurean dish, 
ranking with terrapin in Maryland, 
bluefish in Boston, and the papabote 
of New Orleans. 

The canning of abalone is one of the 
growing industries of the Monterey 
Peninsula. The molluscs are also 
dried and shipped to China. 



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fulfilment 

Peninsula Motor Roads 


I T was the conquering Roman’s first 
care to see that all roads led to 
Rome, the Eternal City. It has been 
the aim of the people of the Monterey 
Peninsula to put their historic and 
scenic highways into the best possible 
condition for their own pleasure and 
profit as well as for the traveler and 
the motor tourist. They have worked 
to this end with the belief that trans- 
portation is civilization, that a good 
road is only another name for progress; 
and the result is that the Monterey 
Peninsula has become a wonderland 
for the motorist. 

Here is a system of scenic boule- 
vards unexcelled by any country’s in 
the world. Paved roads and an 
equable climate permit the use of 
automobiles in all seasons. 

Our Peninsula is on the historic El 
Camino Real—the King’s Highway— 
leading from San Diego to San Fran' 
cisco. It was over this old road the 
padres and the conquistadores toiled 
in the days of early missions and the 
Spanish Conquest. 

This King’s Highway is now a state 
road between Los Angeles and San 
Francisco and over it travel every 
month of the year thousands of motor¬ 
ists from all parts of the country. It 
is an unequaled motor highway. 

The Peninsula is centrally located, 
125 miles southerly from San Fran¬ 
cisco, on a motor trip through the 
famous Santa Clara Valley. From 
Los Angeles the trip by automobile 
is 372 miles, a large part of which is 
along the coast. 

There are now two modern boule¬ 
vards linking the Monterey Peninsula 
with the state highway. One con¬ 
nects with the State road at Salinas, 
twenty miles from Monterey. The 
other entrance to the Peninsula is over 
the road from Monterey to Castro- 
ville or Del Monte Junction. This 


highway parallels Monterey Bay. 

The boulevards linking Monterey 
with Del Monte, Seaside, Pacific 
Grove, Asilomar, Carmel-by-the-Sea, 
Pebble Beach and the Carmel High¬ 
lands are unexcelled for year round 
motoring. Here is a system of mag¬ 
nificent highways unsurpassed in all 
the world. 

One of the most famous boulevards 
in this system is the Seventeen-Mile- 
Drive, encircling a portion of the 
Monterey Peninsula. Starting from 
Del Monte, this drive passes through 
Old Monterey, with its historic mem¬ 
ories and romantic associations of the 
days of the padres and the early days 
of the State; through Pacific Grove, 
city of beautiful homes and flowers 
that bloom the year around; through 
Asilomar, Y. W. C. A. retreat, where 
many of the largest conventions on the 
coast are held; then into spicy pine 
forests whose foliage catches and holds 
the sunlight like so much spray; along 
sand beaches sparkling like silver dust; 
unwinding among dove-gray sand 
dunes; through Druid groves of cy¬ 
presses, old, haggard, twisted—the 
only trees of their kind in the world, 
and whose origin is lost in the mists 
of tradition; through Pebble Beach, 
one of the most beautiful residential 
sections of the Peninsula; skirting the 
famous Pebble Beach Golf course 
bordering the ocean; and thence 
twisting through forests of pines and 
oaks back to Del Monte. The trip is 
made easily in an hour and a half. 

Then there is the new Fifty Mile 
Drive, which opens what is called the 
most magnificent scenery in this state 
of surpassing scenic wonders. Begin¬ 
ning at Del Monte, the motorist will 
drive through Monterey, Pacific 
Grove, Asilomar, the Seventeen-Mile- 
Drive and Carmel, to Carmel High¬ 
lands, thence returning to motor up 




F U L F I 

the Carmel Valley, then over the 
Laurellas grade to the Monterey- 
Salinas highway, and back to Mon¬ 
terey. This is a trip of over a thous¬ 
and scenic wonders. You will roll 
smoothly through vales in which Pan 
and his Dryads might have danced. 
You will pass over meadows blown 
with poppies that seem to have im¬ 
prisoned the living sunlight. You 
will glide along on a perfectly paved 
modern boulevard, following the 
granite-fanged coast-line, and look 
down upon a summer-sea that to all 
practical purposes is as good as undis¬ 
covered. You will ascend a marvel¬ 
ously rich valley where you will hear 
the voice of waters dashing joyously 


L M E N T 

on their way to the sea. You will 
climb mountains whose summits stand 
out against a flawless turquoise sky 
and look down into canyons that catch 
and hold the light and shadows of a 
primeval world, where waterfalls kick 
their silver heels in the sunlight. Here 
is old California, untouched as yet by 
interlopers, still dreaming in its virgin 
beauty. 

This marvelous scenic drive is over 
the best and safest of roads, kept in 
the best of condition. This trip can 
be made in four hours, but the motor¬ 
ist who cares for color, beauty, and 
majestic scenery will not care to make 
this girdling trip of the whole Penin¬ 
sula in less than five or six hours. 


Communities of the Peninsula 


T HE country which. lies back of 
the Peninsula Communities is 
rich, and a distinct agricultural asset 
to this section. Marina, Carmel Val¬ 
ley, Corral de Tierra—these are noted 
for cattle raising, dairying, peas, ap¬ 
ples, pears, apricots, strawberries, 
melons, and cereals. They furnish 
the Peninsula with fresh foods and 
vegetables the year round. 

Bulb farming is becoming important 
over the Peninsula. The fishing in¬ 
dustry of Monterey is mentioned 
elsewhere, as are schools and building 
conditions. Nearly all the usual de¬ 
nominations are represented by 
churches on the Peninsula, there be¬ 
ing in all, some 20 churches. There 
are three Episcopal, three Methodist, 
and two Christian Science churches. 
There is a Presbyterian, a Catholic, a 
Baptist, a Christian, a Theosophical, 
a Pentecostal, and a Congregational 
church, a Japanese Mission, the Sal¬ 
vation Army, and El Bethel Mission. 
There are Carnegie Libraries in Mont¬ 
erey, Carmel, and Pacific Grove. 

The Peninsula has an ideal water 
supply. Head streams of clear, pure 


water from the mountains are diverted 
into the supply for the Peninsula 
communities. No better water is to 
be had anywhere. 

Although there are many palatial 
homes on the Peninsula—and al¬ 
though the Peninsula is the favorite 
recreation ground of many people of 
means, still there is no place in Amer¬ 
ica where people may more happily 
and healthily live on very moderate 
incomes. The majority of Peninsula 
homes are small—but they are com¬ 
fortable. Most of them are cozy, un¬ 
pretentious, homey—and moderate in 
cost and upkeep. Living is decidedly 
satisfying here, at a very low cost. 

For information concerning hotels 
or camping accommodations, Mont¬ 
erey Peninsula Communities may be 
communicated with. 

-MONTEREY- 

This city that has known allegiance 
to three governments is the cradle of 
California’s history. It possesses the 
rare quality of charm. Mystery and 
romance still whisper up from the 
seven seas and the Orient on the cool 
winds that blow in from the blue 


[ 43 ] 


F U L F I 

Pacific. And something of the splen- 
did recklessness, courtesy, and hospi- 
tality of the old Spanish days still 
survives. 

It is the city of “first things.” The 
first landing place of the Spanish ex- 
plorers. First capitol of California. 
Here the first American flag was 
raised over California soil. Here the 
first newspaper in the state was 
printed. Here was the first theater 
in the state, the first Constitutional 
Assembly, the first brick house, the 
first house of milled lumber, and the 
first and only United States consul to 
California. 

That was “Old Monterey” as the 
city is affectionately known. The 
new Monterey preserves the color, 
charm, and atmosphere of the old. 
Monterey is the chief trading and 
commercial center of the Peninsula 
and surrounding back country. Here 
there is a wide variety of stores and 
shops, two large banks, and an after¬ 
noon newspaper. 

The population of Monterey is 
something over 6,000, part of which is 
a colorful fishing colony. Gas and 
electricity serve the entire city. 
Monterey’s advantages as a home 
center are becoming known, and there 
is much building on the expansive 
hillsides overlooking the city and the 
bay. 

The bay is one of the most beauti¬ 
ful bodies of water in the world, a 
landlocked harbor large enough to 
accommodate the combined navies of 
all nations. 

As a seaport Monterey has vast 
possibilities, and men of acumen and 
vision predict a day when Monterey 
will be one of the principal ports of 
the West Coast. 

The Presidio of the United States 
Government is one of the city’s assets. 
On the pueblo grounds of Monterey 
is the largest military training site in 
America. Every summer the citizens’ 
training camp at Del Monte brings 


L M E N T 

thousands of men to the Peninsula. 

Monterey has an active Chamber 
of Commerce, Improvement Club, 
and Woman’s Civic Club. It has an 
extensive system of paved streets. 

The Hotel Del Monte, its extensive 
grounds and golf course are on the 
outskirts of Monterey. 

—PACIFIC GROVE- 

On the tip of the Peninsula is 
Pacific Grove, a beautiful city of 
homes and home-loving people. Here 
is a community admitted to have the 
largest percentage of American-born 
citizens in California. Pacific Grove 
has more churches than any city of its 
size in America, and with its popu¬ 
lation of 3,000 is said to be the 
champion of all cities in percentage of 
registered voters who vote. Pacific 
Grove people take an intense interest 
in the judicious administration of 
their affairs, and their loyalty to— 
and love of—home, is traditional. 

“The Dahlia City” is a veritable 
flower-garden, and is often also called 
“The Winter Paradise.” At Pacific 
Grove are world-famous marine gar¬ 
dens, and glass-bottom boats which 
carry all through the year, visitors 
who marvel at the under - water 
beauty. 

Pacific Grove has an ideal bathing 
beach, tourist camping grounds, and 
many attractions for the vacationist 
as well as the home-builder. 

The city is served by excellent 
stocks of merchandise and the usual 
banking and commercial accommoda¬ 
tions. The bulb industry, which is 
now so important to the Peninsula, 
got its start in Pacific Grove. 

The Hopkins Marine Biological 
Laboratory is at Pacific Grove, and 
has at its doors, greater varieties of 
marine life than has the International 
Marine Biological Laboratory on the 
Bay of Naples. Scientists and stu¬ 
dents from all over the world, come 
here to take advantage of this remark¬ 
ably rich Bay. 


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F U L F I 

A marine museum is another inter¬ 
esting feature of Pacific Grove. Fish¬ 
ing at Pacific Grove is well-paying and 
excellent sport. 

Although the winter is the most 
delightful season at Pacific Grove, as 
it is all over the Peninsula, there is a 
great influx to the Dahlia City in the 
summer, from California’s sunny 
valleys. 

Most visitors to Pacific Grove are 
impressed by the very reasonable 
prices of home sites overlooking the 
glorious bay. Realty values are de¬ 
cidedly interesting here, as they are 
all over the Peninsula. Ideal home 
sites with incomparable marine views 
dot the city. 

-CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA- 

On the south side of the Monterey 
Peninsula, over a great tree-mantled 
hill, is Carmel - by - the - Sea—inter¬ 
nationally known as an artists’ colony. 
Here are artists, scientists,'poets, au¬ 
thors, college professors, theater folk 
and a great many retired business 
people who make play out of work. 

Carmel is different in the extreme 
from the average community. There 
are no local industries. There are no 
railroad stations and no railroad. You 
reach Carmel over a paved highway 
that crosses hills and woods; a high¬ 
way from which superb views are to 
be had. 

Rather than stores, Carmel has for 
the most part quaint shops and bazars 
that provide the necessities of life— 
and the luxuries. There is no business 
section in the country like Carmel’s. 

Carmel has a splendid beach that 
is called the most beautiful on the 
Pacific. The town also boasts the 
famous annex branch of the Carnegie 
Desert Laboratory, where some of the 
most important and significant of 
modern scientific investigations and 
experiments are being carried on. 

Carmel is the home of the Forest 
Theater, one of the first outdoor 
theaters in America, and known the 


L M E N T 

world over for the excellence of its 
productions. 

The resident population of the 
town is about 1,400, although thou¬ 
sands of visitors swell this figure the 
year around, for here is not alone a 
wondrous place to dwell permanently, 
but a wondrous place to spend vaca¬ 
tions—to rest—relax—and live nat¬ 
urally. Carmel-by-the-Sea is a com¬ 
munity of cozy bungalows among 
pines and live oaks that people the 
hills generously. There are three 
private schools in Carmel, as well as 
the public school. 

-PEBBLE BEACH— 

Pebble Beach is credited with being 
the most beautiful residential section 
developing in California, where beau¬ 
tiful residential sections are every¬ 
where. It is on the Seventeen Mile 
Drive in the 18,000-acre reservation 
known as Del Monte forest. Far- 
famed Del Monte Lodge and the re¬ 
nowned Pebble Beach Golf Course 
are here. Building restrictions have 
kept all but the most pleasing of 
homes out of Pebble Beach—and here 
residences rest blissfully on the forest 
slopes that drop down to the shores 
of Carmel Bay. 

-HOTEL DEL MONTE- 

Hotel Del Monte, close to the 
hearts of travelled people all over the 
world, is in its vast floral park and 
forest—the largest pleasure resort of 
the kind in the world. The two 
championship golf courses, the polo 
fields, the incomparable tennis courts, 
the trap shooting, the dances, the 
fetes and gala affairs that have long 
made Del Monte famous, are not to 
be outdone anywhere. Hotel Del 
Monte has earned its name, and needs 
no introduction to the sophisticated 
seeker after luxurious pleasure and 
satisfying, gratifying relaxation. 

—seaside— 

Seaside is a neighboring com¬ 
munity to Monterey, where the Pen¬ 
insula’s industrial development of 

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F U L F I 

the future may be expected to take 
place. It is already noted as a poultry 
center, and seems destined by soil and 
climate to be eventually without a 
peer in the State, as a center for this 
essential kind of farming. Bulbs also 
thrive unusually well at Seaside. 

—asilomar— 

Asilomar is a conference and vaca- 
tion camp of fifty-seven acres owned 
and operated by the National Young 
Women’s Christian Association. It 
is open all the year to vacation guests 
and for conference engagements and 
is the scene of many of the most im¬ 
portant conventions on the Pacific 
Coast. 

The tract lies on the ocean side of 
the Monterey Peninsula, adjoining 
Del Monte Forest and Pacific Grove. 
It is bordered with wonderful, glis¬ 
tening white sand dunes, while the 
grounds are wooded with live oaks 
and pines. Twenty-five well-equip¬ 
ped buildings provide accommoda¬ 
tions for some 600 people. 

Among the larger buildings are the 
Grace H. Dodge Memorial Chapel, 
Phoebe A. Hearst Social Hall, Mary 
A. Crocker Dining Hall, Ellen B. 
Scripps Class Hall, Olivia E. Stokes 


L M E N T 

Health Cottage, Guest Inn, Visitors’ 
Lodge, and the House of Happiness. 

Asilomar is essentially a place for 
quiet, rest, and relaxation. As a place 
for healthful recreation between hours 
devoted to study and attending lec¬ 
tures during sessions, Asilomar is 
“rich in things to do.” Tennis, 
basketball, baseball, surf bathing, 
motoring, tramping, and beach-fire 
picnics are all popular. 

-SALINAS- 

County seat, nineteen miles from 
Monterey, in the Salinas Valley 
which is called “The Valley of the 
Nile.” Extremely rich soil produces 
alfalfa, sugar beets, potatoes, and 
fruits in important quantities. Larg¬ 
est beet sugar factory in the world is 
just outside Salinas. Salinas Valley 
is the largest of the inter-mountain 
valleys of the coast regions. The 
town itself is a bustling community 
of agricultural and commercial inter¬ 
ests. Paved streets, modern stores, 
and a new half-million-dollar high 
school mark Salinas for the thriving 
little home city it is. The rich delta 
soil back of Salinas contributes much 
to markets of the State and nation, as 
well as to the Peninsula. 


The Peninsulas Equable Climate 


No spot on earth has been so pe¬ 
culiarly fortunate in natural climatic 
advantages as the Monterey Penin¬ 
sula. The typical midwinter temp¬ 
erature at Mentone, France is 40°, at 
Naples, Italy, 46°, at Algiers, 52 0 . 
The Peninsula’s typical winter aver¬ 
age temperature is 53 0 . Midsummer 
at Mentone, Naples, and Algiers, 
respectively—73°, 76°, 75 0 . On the 
Peninsula, midsummer averages 61 °. 
The renowned resorts of the world 
are not so equable and so delightful 
withal, as the Peninsula. 

The Peninsula averages 293 days of 
sunshine a year. There is noticeably 


lacking—enervating humidity. The 
tables here shown are evidence of the 
invigorating, refreshing, kindly air. 
The mean average annual temperature 
is 56.6°. Here there is no joker in the 
climate. The winter season is not 
foggy and excessively damp—as are 
winters at many resorts. You can enjoy 
ALL the year here. A few days spent 
on the Peninsula will convince you. 

The opposite tables give you tem¬ 
perature readings three times a day for 
a year, with morning, noon, and even¬ 
ing averages each month. Such data 
cannot acquaint you with our climate, 
but it offers basis of comparison. 


[46] 


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In Case You Wish Direction to Some Certain Subject 


Romantic Monterey of Old 

Page 

5 

Historic Treatment ..... 

IO 

The Peninsula Today, described 

14 

Life on the Peninsula .... 

20 

Historic Buildings and Land Mar\s 

22 

Golf and Other Sports .... 

25 

Literature on the Peninsula 

28 

Drama on the Peninsula .... 

30 

Art on the Peninsula .... 

32 

Peninsula Social Life 

33 

Schools of the Peninsula .... 

34 

Homes and Building Costs .... 

35 

Flowers of the Peninsula .... 

36 

The Peninsula’s Bulb Industry 

37 

Poultry on the Peninsula .... 

39 

The Peninsula’s Fishing Industry 

40 

Peninsula Motor Roads 

42 

The Communities of the Peninsula 

43 

The Peninsula’s Equable Climate 

46 

Temperature Tables .... 

47 

Illustrations 

Map of the Peninsula .... 

Page 

4 

Peninsula Scenes ..... 

7 and 11 

Marine Views ..... 

9 

Del Monte ...... 

13 

Peninsula Homes ..... 

16 and 19 

Some Peninsula Schools .... 

21 

Historic Buildings ..... 

23 

Golf and Other Sports .... 

26 

Forest Theatre ..... 

31 

Peninsula Flowers ..... 

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